Advisory Boards

External Advisory Board

Eugene Fitzgerald

Board Chair
Merton C. Flemings – SMA Professor of Materials Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Christopher J. Brooks

Chief Scientist,
Honda Research Institute USA, Inc.
Program Director, 99P Labs

Kieran F. Drain

Managing Director Entrepreneur in Residence Group,
Applied Materials, Inc.

Carolyn Duran

Senior Director, Product Integrity at Apple

Mark Goorsky

Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering,
Samueli School of Engineering, UCLA

Jim McGuire

Chief Executive Officer,
Entrotech, Inc.

Drew Nelson

Founder, President & Non-Executive Director IQE PLC

Joan Redwing

Distinguished Professor, Materials Science and Engineering Director, 2D Crystal Consortium,
Pennsylvania State University

Piyush Sinha

Vice President, Technology Development Group at Intel Corporation

Mitra Taheri

Professor, Materials Science & Eng.; Director, Materials Characterization & Processing Center, Johns Hopkins University;
Chief Materials Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Richard Vaia

Chief Scientist, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, AFRL

Gabriel Veith

Distinguished Staff Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Paul Wood

Senior Advisor – First Reserve, Retired (formerly CEO, Brand Energy & Infrastructure Services, Inc.)

Internal Advisory Board

Robert Baker

Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Co-Director, NSF NEXUS

Ralf Bundschuh

Chair, Physics

Glenn Daehn

Fontana Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Director, HAMMER NSF ERC

Maryam Ghazisaeidi

Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Distinguished Professor of Engineering

Josh Goldberger

Kimberly Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Director, CEM NSF MRSEC

Christopher Hadad

Professor & Vice Chair for Research & Administration, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Zeke Johnston-Halperin

Professor, Physics
Co-director, Center for QISE

Michael Mills

Chair, Materials Science and Engineering

Matt Ringel

Chair, Department of Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics
Director, CCE-CURES

Balasubramaniam Shanker

Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Ness Shroff

Professor and Ohio Eminent Scholar, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Director, NSF AI-EDGE Center

Robert Siston

Chair, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Giorgio Rizzoni

Ford Motor Company Chair Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Director, CAR